According to the official spokesperson, Gurugram zonal unit of director general of GST intelligence had arrested one person on January 18 under the provision of the GST Act on charges of running multiple fake firms on the strength of fake documents. He has issued ITC fraudulently to the quantum of Rs 491 crore.
Gurugram GST intelligence team acted on the specific intelligence from its Jaipur zonal unit detected that a person was providing cloud storage facility to several persons across India for carrying out their work from remote locations and storing data.
“Hard disk recovered from the cloud service provider was investigated. Through scrutiny of the data in hard disk being provided by the cloud storage facility, it was unearthed that this key operator was running 93 fake firms”, the spokesperson stated.
During search operation by DGGST, these firms floated by him were found to be non-existent at their given address. “The key operative, who was already using the cloud storage facility, was apprehended from Hansi in Haryana on January 18”.
The investigation revealed that operative admitted to have orchestrated the fraud along with other accomplices, who are yet to be apprehended.
The zonal office investigated the whole thing and based on verifications, evidences, statements recorded, it was found that the key operative was running a racket of creating fake firms and issuing invoices without actual supply of goods in respect of 93 fake firms.
As a result of this racket, it has led to passing on of fraudulent and inadmissible ITC of Rs 491 crore, the spokesperson said. “It violates multiple provisions of the CGST Act, 2017. Now the person is in judicial custody for 14 days and the further investigation is on in the case”, the official stated.
